A claim about Nazi imagery was made in a court filing this week by the Florida hospital that was recently found civilly liable for medically kidnapping a young girl to the point that it drove her mother to suicide.
The ordeal suffered by then-10-year-old Maya Kowalski and her family is famously depicted in the popular and critically acclaimed Netflix documentary, “Take Care of Maya.” A roughly two-month-long civil trial earlier this year reprised the claims made in that film against the hospital for the way staff there treated the chronically ill girl – and then some – including her false imprisonment and battery.
In November, a six-person jury in Sarasota County unanimously found Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg liable for the incidents leading up to the January 2017 death of Beata Kowalski, 43. Jurors awarded the Kowalski family far more than they even requested – a total of $261 million in compensatory and punitive damages to make up for their loss and to punish the hospital.
Now, All Children’s is asking the judge overseeing the case for a new trial. The request, in a series of motions filed in recent weeks, is based on various incidents of alleged misconduct by one juror in particular.
